Samuel G. King

Samuel George King (2 May 1816-21 March 1899) was Mayor of Philadelphia (D) from 4 April 1881 to 7 April 1887, succeeding William S. Stokley and preceding William Burns Smith.

Biography
Samuel George King was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1816, and he served on the Commitee of One Hundred before running for Mayor in 1881 on an anti-corruption platform, opposing the corrupt Republican mayor William S. Stokley. King served as Mayor from 1881 to 1887, when he was defeated for re-election by William Burns Smith.